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Jennifer Jacquet is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Daniel Pauly and the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. As a kid, she read 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth and would come to discover that while those 50 things were indeed simple, saving the Earth was not.
August 14, 2009: Dan Ax at Avukado Productions makes the following short video for Guilty Planet:
July 30, 2009: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation: Fish as Food in an Age of Globalization at the University of British Columbia.
June 2009: In press at Oryx: "Conserving Wild Fish in a Sea of Market-Based Efforts"
June 2009: Published at Conservation Biology: What Can Conservationists Learn from Investor Behavior?
May 27, 2009: Talk titled "Historical Renaming and Mislabeling of Fish" given the Oceans Past II conference in Vancouver, B.C.
May 24, 2009: Talk at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, D.C.
March 24, 2009: Dave Beck and I showcase our jellyfish burger in Scientific American's photo gallery:
March 24, 2009: Talk at the Student Conference for Conservation Science at Cambridge University, UK.
March 14, 2009: Talk at the Kettle's Yard Problemathon for Cambridge's Science Festival.
March 3, 2009: Talk titled "Guilt v. Shame in Market Based Efforts to Save Our Fish" at the Max Planck Institute in Ploen, Germany.
February 27, 2009: Talk at Fauna & Flora International.
November 2008: A new study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.
November 2008:
August 31, 2009
Meat production is hard on the environment and slaughterhouses are hard on our sensibilities. Imagine if we could grow meat in a laboratory, outside an animal, and fashion it into a nicely shaped cow ready for carving -- all with...
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Category: Food Systems
Are you an eco-douchebag? Take this simple test.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:27 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2009
Category: Seafood
At Tokyo's fish market, fish are smaller, farmed, and less tasty.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:40 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Shifting Baselines
Salmon in Salmon River: who knew?
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August 21, 2009
Category: Consumed
Companies should make their eco-friendly products distinguishable from their conventional ones.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:27 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 20, 2009
Category: Stylized Substance
A friend wanted me to see this public service announcement, which is an excellent visual display of quantitative information and a good way to provoke guilt: When he sent me the link, he routed me through this awesome blog called...
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August 17, 2009
Category: Oceans
There might not be focus on ocean conservation, but there should be.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 15, 2009
Category: Stylized Substance
It's an New York Times oldie but goodie and I think one of the best graphics I've seen: savings versus debt of the average American household through the decades. I'd love to see one of these for fish catches in...
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August 14, 2009
Category: Stylized Substance
Check out this fun and impromptu little Guilty Planet spot made by a friend of mine and founder of Avukado film and photography....
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August 11, 2009
Category: Solutions
After almost a century, Atlantic salmon are back in France's Seine River.
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